DAVID McGoldrick is convinced that he has played his last game for home-town club Nottingham Forest – and admits that the feelgood factor is drawing him towards a long-term future at Coventry City.

The on-loan striker’s sensational rush of nine goals in the last seven games – the hottest streak at the club since Micky Quinn burst on to the Sky Blue scene 20 years ago with ten in six – has drawn a flock of Championship scouts to watch him in recent weeks and it seems certain that at least one of them will step in with a bid in January.

But McGoldrick said: “I owe Coventry a lot because not so long ago nobody wanted to touch me.

"I had been out for five months with a stress fracture and it was hard for teams to believe in me because they thought maybe I didn’t want it and this and that.

“Coventry have given me a chance and I am really thankful because although I never doubted my ability, I wanted to prove to people that I am a good player.

“It’s the best form since my youth team days and there’s nothing better than playing football every week and scoring goals, so I have got a smile on my face and I don’t really want to change that for the minute.

"I have got two more months left and whatever happens I will enjoy that time as much as possible.”

Manager Mark Robins is confident McGoldrick can easily hit the 20-goal mark for the season and with 11 to his name so far, the 24-year-old frontman said: “If I was here for the season, 20 would definitely be my target.

"I have still got nine or ten games left of my loan spell and I want to get as many as I can in that time, and the figure I want from the loan is not far off the 20 mark.”

He added: “I really like the way Mark Robins likes to play football and the training.

"The club’s great and it doesn’t have to sell itself to me. It would obviously be great if we were first or second in the table which might put a different slant on it, but I just want to enjoy my football.

“There are a lot of things to consider. I live in Nottingham and so I can travel in every day without a problem.

" If I had to move to a different city I don’t think I’d want to go too far because my kids are settled in school and we don’t want them to move.

"I have to look at those factors when I weigh things up.

“Coventry are a team on the up and sometimes you can go to a Championship team and be down in three or four months while Coventry could go up.

"I have got to look at both sides because the grass is not always as green as some people might say.

“Anyway, there might not be any other clubs in for me. It might just be Coventry so I just have to wait until January to see what happens.”

McGoldrick revealed that Forest boss Sean O’Driscoll hasn’t spoken to him since he switched to the Ricoh Arena.

“I’ve had three years there and they haven’t been the best of me,” he said. “I do support the club and love the club but it just wasn’t meant to be. I think they want me to move on and I think it’s best for me to move on.

“The manager is under a lot of pressure and he’s not thinking about me, he’s thinking about how he can get promotion.

"He’s brought in Billy Sharp who is starting to score goals, he’s brought in Simon Cox and they still have Dexter Blackstock, Marcus Tudgay, Robbie Findley and Matt Derbyshire is out on loan at Oldham and scored a few goals, so he’s got a lot of strikers to choose from.

“Goals mean a lot because every manager wants a goal scorer, but I don’t want all the talk about my future to affect my form.

"I want to help Coventry up the table for everything the club has done for me.

"They have been a massive help to me and Mark Robins has shown great faith in me – I listen to what he says because he’s an ex striker who knows what he’s talking about so I am taking everything he says on board.

“I just don’t want to stop the form I am in because the minute I start taking my foot off the ball and start thinking about this or that, what’s going to happen in January, then it might ruin my scoring capabilities.

“So I just let my agent deal with that and he’s speaking to Forest and Coventry to see what’s happening. I think he’s a good agent – he’s got a nice car, so he must be.”

And Robins is clearly hopeful the fans will play their part in his decisions, saying: “He’s enjoying his football and he loves the supporters who are right behind him. He’s getting a lot of adulation because he scores on a consistent basis.”